The Chauncey DeVega Show

Performance artist M. Lamar is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . M. L amar is a New York city-based composer, musician, performer, multimedia artist, and counter tenor  whose work "Negrogothic, a Manifesto" has been featured by The New York Times and the Museum of Modern Art . M. Lamar is smart, funny, and honest. In this conversation, M. Lamar and Chauncey talk about...

Nina Hartley is the guest on this week's edition of The Chauncey DeVega Show .  Nina is a legendary adult film actress and sex educator who has starred or performed in more than 650 films since her debut in 1984. She continues to perform, give lectures, and run seminars on sexual health, agency, and spirituality.  She is also a great and enthusiastic conversation partner. In this conversation, Nin...

Gary Brown is the guest on this week's edition of The Chauncey DeVega Show . Gary is a TV writer, producer, and director who worked on such landmark shows as Benson and 227 . Mr. Brown is also a former writer with World Wrestling Entertainment. Chauncey and Gary connected because of the latter's great piece in the L.A. Progressive that detailed how Donald Trump is actually a professional wrestling...

Dr. David Frankfurter  is the guest on this week's episode of  The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is a Professor of Religion at Boston University. David is also the author of several books, most recently,  Evil Incarnate: Rumors of Demonic Conspiracy and Satanic Abuse in History . Dr. Frankfurter does some great teaching in this episode of the podcast known as  The Chauncey DeVega Show . What makes som...

Political Scientist  Joe Uscinski  is the guest on this week's episode of  The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is the co-author of the new book  American Conspiracy Theories . It is now 14 years since the tragedy of September 11th. In this episode of  The Chauncey DeVega Show , Professor Uscinski and Chauncey discuss the conspiracy theories that have come into existence about that tragic day, how they f...

This week's episode of  The Chauncey DeVega Show  features two great guests.  The first part of the show is very unique, and is perhaps a first in the history of podcasting and other online media. Friend of the show and website Bill the Lizard stops by and offers up a very concerned and heartfelt intervention for his friend of many years Chauncey DeVega. Apparently, Chauncey has been compromised,...

Walidah Imarisha  is the guest on this week's episode of  The Chauncey DeVega Show . Walidah is an activist, writer, and historian whose work focuses on the history of black Americans in the Pacific Northwest, the power of speculative fiction, and how storytelling, organizing, and dreaming are essential tools for social change work. I discovered her work  on the website Gizmodo as referenced in a...

This week's episode of  The Chauncey DeVega Show  features two firsts. David Friendly  is the director and producer of  the new documentary on sneaker culture  known as  "Sneakerheadz" . David is the first Best Motion Picture of the Year Oscar-nominated guest--for his work on the great movie  Little Miss Sunshine --to sit down at the virtual bar and salon known as  The Chauncey DeVega Show . David...

Sean McFate  is the guest on this week's episode of the podcast known as  The Chauncey DeVega Show . Sean is an expert on international and military affairs. He is also the author of the book  The Modern Mercenary: Private Armies and What They Mean for World Order . Sean McFate is also a very fun, smart, and insightful conversation partner as he and Chauncey DeVega dialogue about the present/futur...

Psychiatrist David Reiss  is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . David and Chauncey  first connected in a previous podcast  discussion of the passing of the late great professional wrestler "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes.   This is a continuation of that great discussion and David does some great sharing and teaching.   David is a mental health practitioner who in add...

There are two guests on this week's installment of  The Chauncey DeVega Show . It is full of goodness, teaching, learning, and great conversations.   The first talk features Jonny Campbell. He has directed  HBO's recent miniseries  Casual Vacancy  based on the work of  Harry Potter's  J.K. Rowling.    Campbell also directed the zombie TV series  In the Flesh  on the BBC, in addition to the classic...

Historian Gregory Downs  is the guest on this week's edition of The Chauncey DeVega Show . Dr. Downs is the author of the new book  After Appomattox , which offers an analysis of the post Civil War era South, Reconstruction, American freedom, and the struggle for African-Americans to defend their newly one gains in the face of white racial terrorism. Professor Downs' new book is an excellent histo...

Documentary filmmaker Shan Nicholson is the guest on this week's edition of the podcast known as  The Chauncey DeVega Show . His new film  Rubble Kings , explores the gang culture of New York during the 1970s and how it gave birth to hip-hop music and culture.  Rubble Kings  is also an excellent documentary about young people's political activism, a great and exciting examination of social change...

Jonathan Lethem  is the featured guest on this week's installment of the podcast known as The Chauncey DeVega Show. He is the author of many award winning books including  Dissident Gardens ,  The Fortress of Solitude , and  Motherless Brooklyn. Jonathan conducted a master class and did some wonderful sharing about the culture of disreputability, the movie  They Live , race and class, generational...

Ali Abunimah  is the guest on this week's edition of the podcast known as  The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is an internationally known human rights activist and  author   whose work focuses on the struggle for the Palestinian peoples' full rights and freedom.  Ali Abunimah  is also the co-founder of the essential website  Electronic Intifada .  In this great conversation, Ali and Chauncey talk about...

Dr. Henry Giroux  is the guest on this week's edition of the podcast known as  The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is the author of numerous books such as the recent  The Culture of Organized Forgetting . He is also an essential voice in this time of trouble, neoliberalism, austerity, and cruelty. Dr. Giroux has been a great guide for my work here on  WARN  and ChaunceyDeVega.com. I am Padawan. He is Ma...

Leonce Gaiter is the guest  on this installment of the podcast known as  The Chauncey DeVega Show . Leonce is the author of  I Dreamt I Was in Heaven: The Rampage of the Rufus Buck Gang .  He is a straight shooter and a real talker. This is a great and honest conversation where Chauncey and Leonce have a real salon. There is no agenda or prepared set of questions in the conversation between Leonce...

Historian David Krugler is the guest on this week's episode of  The Chauncey DeVega Show . David is the author of the new book  1919, The Year of Racial Violence: How African Americans Fought Back . Dr. Krugler's work is an exciting intervention against a narrative of African-American passivity in the face of white racial pogroms and other violence in the post World War One era. Black America has...

Robert Neer  is the guest on this week's episode of  The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is  a historian at Columbia University  and the author of  Napalm: An American Biography . Robert's work is a incisive and unique example of the history of objects and how that type of social history can illuminate broader questions of politics, life, and society. Napalm: An American Biography  is more than the hist...

Joe McKinney  is the guest on this week's episode of  The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is the author of such popular zombie horror books as  Dead City ,  Apocalypse of the Dead ,  Flesh Eaters  and  The Zombie King . Mr. McKinney is also a police officer in San Antonio, Texas with expertise in disaster and emergency management. Joe's professional police expertise and mastery of the zombie horror genr...

This special episode of  the podcast  known as  The Chauncey DeVega Show  features two conversations from Chicago's 2015 Comic and Entertainment Expo. The first conversation is with Max Brooks. He is the author of the zombie tome and landmark work  World War Z . His most recent project is the graphic novel  The Harlem Hellfighters . It explores the history of one of America's most storied combat u...

Keli Dailey  is the guest on this week's packed full of goodness installment of  The Chauncey DeVega Show . She is the host of  News Hangover , an   online comedy news series. News Hangover  is smart, sharp, and funny as Keli and her guests use comedy and satire as a means to talk about current events, social justice, and other related topics. Keli is also a journalist who worked at the U-T San Di...

Professor Claire "Tenured Radical" Potter is the guest on this installment of the podcast known as  The Chauncey DeVega Show . Dr. Potter is a scholar of American Studies, history, and popular culture. She is a Professor of History at The New School and is the author/editor of several books including  War on Crime: Bandits, G-Men and the Politics of Mass Culture  and the forthcoming Beyond Pornogr...

Dr. Jeffrey T. Sammons and Dr. John H. Morrow Jr. are the guests on this week's installment of  The Chauncey DeVega Show   where we discuss their new book  "Harlem's Rattlers and the Great War" . They are both starred scholars. Jeffrey T. Sammons is Professor in the Department of History at New York University and the author of  Beyond the Ring: The Role of Boxing in American Society . John H. Mor...

Rosalyn Dischiavo , founder of the Institute for Sexual Education and Enlightenment is the guest on this week's episode of  The Chauncey DeVega Show . This is a fun and interesting conversation that began several years ago when Dr. Dischiavo reached out to Chauncey DeVega with some questions about a blog post he shared regarding the colorline, kink, sexuality, and "race play". That series of email...